It's bad enough he's a conspiracy nut with a huge audience. But is it too much to ask that he be a bit more creative? I mean, the roasted human babies wrapped in gold foil? That's some of A material's he's got going there. This? Meh.

He's on the radio three hours a day and has his own Internet "newscast" every night, so he's pretty available. Last Friday, he interviewed John McAfee in one of the greatest pieces of performance art ever. (About 50 minutes in) Andy Kaufman bows down to this McAfee guy. He's a fugitive software millionaire criss-crossing central America while trying to warn everybody that he's uncovered a huge terrorist plot to mass poison Americans with ricin, all while dodging every lawman in the hemisphere.

Alex Jones is to conspiracy theorists as Westboro Baptist is to homophobes. They take it to a whole new level that can only exist at places where ous dimension intersects another dimension that can help contain that much crazy.

Jones makes his money selling stuff to dupes and schizophrenics, whereas WBC makes their money off of enraging people and then suing everyone they can.

Alex Jones is to conspiracy theorists as Westboro Baptist is to homophobes. They take it to a whole new level that can only exist at places where ous dimension intersects another dimension that can help contain that much crazy.

Jones makes his money selling stuff to dupes and schizophrenics, whereas WBC makes their money off of enraging people and then suing everyone they can.

Pretty much. HIS brand of crazy is salable. It drives up interest in websites, it pushes up ratings in markets, it is very much an act, but one that the rubes haven't gigged onto yet. Beck? They began to realize that maybe, just maybe, he was just working a con, but it's hard to punch a fat boy who is crying so often. Breitbart died before he could be exposed to the Idiot Brigade--or rather, before he could be exposed in such a way that he had his dick, his hand, and his agency all up in their business in such a way that they realized that he was just conning them.

That is really the sad thing. This ISN'T a good con. This isn't even a decent con. It's just spouting crazy, and hoping that a few rubes will bite, and playing the numbers that there's a sucker born every minute, and banking on having enough of them in a market that will pass on his ravings to more rubes, and build up a "movement" based on idiots playing the whisper game. It's obvious, it lacks any subtlety, and as someone who used to play a few cons back in the day--for fairly penny ante stakes, and more for fun than profit--it offends me watching someone this hamfisted. I'll give him credit, he's making money off the gullible, and to be fair, spending it on his tripe is probably a bit less dangerous than them sinking cash into more guns and ammo, but for the same money, they could be building their own shoddily built bunkers to await the A-DERP-O-Lypse, and that is money that could be spent on real contractors and real materials. Plus, there's the chance that the shoddily built bunkers might collapse as they test them before their families are coerced into them, and that would only service the gene pool and cut down on the nurture factor of the passing on of Weapons Grade Crazy...

Apos:cman: Alex Jones threads are my fav. It is the only time where partisanship can be transcended with many o' us agreeing that he is a moran

When Glen Beck lambasts you, you know you belong in a padded room.

That's what irritates me about the whole Piers Morgan/Alex Jones thing. Alex Jones is a nut and a kook, and I can only think of a few reasons for Piers Morgan to give him airtime, none of which reflect well on Morgan:

1) Morgan believes that Jones is representative of the political right, in which case Morgan is an ignorant fool.2) Morgan wants to falsely portray Jones as representative of the political right, in which case Morgan is a disingenuous partisan hack.3) This was a ratings stunt, in which case Morgan is sleazeball who will put anything on the air if it grabs a few extra eyeballs.